Hazlewood took 3-21 after Angelo Mathews won the toss, opted to
bat and then saw his top order crumble to 18-3. Australia ended the
day on 66-2 after the entire evening session was washed out.

Sri Lanka's paltry total was their lowest first-innings score
against Australia in Test history, with Hazlewood hoping their
shattered confidence is not mended by the time the tour comes to
pitches that are expected to play more into the hosts' hands.

"Anything you can get on the opposition is crucial," Hazlewood
said.

"If you can get it straight up on the first morning of a Test
series, and get on top of a few of their top-order batters, it does
open up some scars, hopefully, for the back end of the tour on some
not-so-friendly wickets for us quicks.

"We don't know too much about these guys, we haven't played them
a lot, especially our bowlers, so we've worked out a few little
things here and there in that innings, and we'll look to keep on
top of them with those plans throughout the whole series."

He added: "It is [going to get harder], hopefully, we enjoyed
that as much as we could.

"The next two wickets are probably going to suit the spinners
and then Colombo could be quite flat, so it's going to be hard
work, but we've trained on some flat wickets in Colombo when we got
here and tried a few different things here and there, so we're as
prepared as we can be.

"We may have to work on a few other things, and I think reverse
swing will be a huge factor as well."